Bennett Mountain High School ranked as one of the highest schools for ‘student engagement’ in Idaho

The State Department of Education recently released this year’s student engagement ranking and Bennett Mountain High School came in at fourth on the list of high schools throughout the state.

Student engagement data is important in Idaho because it is one accountability metric Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra and the State Board of Education chose to use in the state’s plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, a federal education law.

How the state measures student engagement

The SDE uses the Glossary of Education Reform’s definition of student engagement, defining it as “the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.”

In order to measure engagement, students completed a 20-question survey.

“Their responses provide evidence about student engagement across the behavioral, emotional and cognitive domains,” the SDE wrote on its online school accountability report cards.

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